Tony Hutchings
Glorified Earth
Tony Hutchings’s music is a collection of tiny, resonant sounds and a long slow drone, which he defines as “a moving tap of a hand over a surface”. It’s as though we’ve been watching a video of an alien hovering over a stage. Hutchings’s ability to combine sound and form is so balanced and expressive it sounds like the work of a violinist. His work, which can be described as ambient, atmospheric, or even electronic, is full of subtle details but is clearly not your average electronic project. The sounds here are, however, well realised and the drone is one of Hutchings’s most distinctive features.